Table 4.

Comparison among the slenderness index (the ratio percentage of the minimum breadth, measured near the middle of the shaft and the maximum length) in the metatarsal bones of Candiacervus major, the other Cretan Candiacervus species, and extinct and extant continental large deer (data source and references as in Fig. 3)

Metatarsus
Taxa	Slenderness index (SIm)
Candiacervus major (Bate cave)	0.073
Candiacervus ropalophorous (Bate cave)	0.086–0.141; M 0.134
Candiacervus ropalophorous vel C. spp. II (Bate cave)	0.084–0.119; M 0.101
Candiacervus spp. II (Bate cave)	0.083–0.124; M 0.101
Candiacervus cretensis (Liko cave)	0.097–0.104; M 0.098
Candiacervus rethymnensis (Liko cave)	0.084
Candiacervus dorothensis (Bate cave)	0.079, 0.078
Eucladoceros dicranios vel E. ctenoides (Italy)	0.078–0.104; M 0.092
Eucladoceros ctenoides (France)	0.078–0.11; M 0.090
Eucladoceros giulii (Untermassfeld, Germany)	0.079–0.089; M 0.083
Cervalces gallicus (Senèze, France)	0.082, 0.085
Cervalces latifrons (Moldova)	0.1
Cervalces latifrons (Siberia, Russia)	0.084
Alces alces (Norge)	0.079–0.089; M 0.084
Alces alces (North America)	0.080–0.085, M 0.083